This Week in LIS - 12 June 2015
Headline of the Week: Technology with a Long LifeFrequently we enjoy (or are confounded by) technology driven change that exacerbates what already seem like short product lifecycles. This has led to...
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This Week in LIS - 26 June 2015
Headline of the Week: Two Stories from CLAC - One About Liberal Arts and Another from AppleLast week Diane Gossman and I attended theConsortium of Liberal Arts Colleges(CLAC) Annual Conference. This...
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This Week in LIS - 2 July 2015
Headline of the Week: The Conundrum with Academic Serials and Electronic Databases CostsA question was asked during the Cabinet member’s portion of an interview for an LIS leadership job, “What impact...
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This Week in LIS - 10 July 2015
Headline of the Week: The Product Manager Role in Higher Ed ITMore and more information technology solutions are being delivered in the “cloud.” The overloaded term,cloud computing, can mean many...
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This Week in LIS - 17 July 2015
Headline of the Week: Thank You for Enhancing Student Learning through Information Literacy and TechnologyThis week the faculty workshop “Enhancing Student Learning through Information Literacy and...
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This Week in LIS - 31 July 2015
Headline of the Week: Power and DependenceThe importance of power has been top of mind this week. Specifically electrical power and our level of dependence on it.It began on Friday when Luther...
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This Week in LIS - 7 August 2015
Headline of the Week: Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! New Team Members in LISThis week we welcome three new LIS team members. I want to extend a warm welcome to each of them and encourage you to seek them...
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This Week in LIS - 14 August 2015
Headline of the Week: Embracing the Cloud with ConfidenceThe word “cloud” juxtaposed with “confidence” raises important questions for us to consider. Juxtaposing “cloud” with “risk” or “cloud” with...
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This Week in LIS - 21 August 2015
Headline of the Week: Internet Trends - Which of Them Are Important to Us and If So, When?Since 1995, Mary Meeker, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &...
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This Week in LIS - 28 August 2015
Headline of the Week: Thank You for Your Good Work Preparing for a New Academic Year“Thank you!” is the headline for this week. It could be the headline every week.Friends and colleagues whose only...
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This Week in LIS - 4 September 2015
Headline of the Week: Alertness During the Long HoursA new academic year has begun and with it a seemingly endless string of demands on our time. InLIS there have been long hours preparing for...
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This Week in LIS - 11 September 2015
Headline of the Week: What Doesn’t Unbundle in Higher EducationThis week I enjoyed working through the September/October issue ofEDUCAUSE Review. As ever there are several provocative articles. One of...
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This Week in LIS - 18 September 2015
Headline of the Week: Campus Network Demand- What’s New?Early returns for the new academic year from our network monitoring systems are showing, unsurprisingly, growth in network demand on campus.There...
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This Week in LIS - 25 September 2015
Headline of the Week: More Robots - WinePod - RoboethicsIt’s fall and the wine grapes in California have ripened. For many of the last 15 years or so I have been a part of a team of guys in Rochester...
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This Week in LIS - 2 October 2015
Headline of the Week: Attention, Conversation, RelationshipsA number of TWILIS Headline ideas were competing in my head with no clear winner when this morning’s Chronicle reading provided today’s...
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Headline of the Week: Within Vocation, Hard Work is Worth ItToday I welcome a “Headline” by Hayley Jackson, our new College Archivist. She has been with us a bit over 60 days and that provides an...
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This Week in LIS - 16 October 2015
Headline of the Week: Sleepers, Wake! Innovative Technologies to Boost Participation and Gauge AbsorptionToday I welcome a “Headline” by Jaci Wilkinson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Library and...
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This Week in LIS - 23 October 2015
Headline of the Week: Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! New Team Members in LISIn the last week, two experienced professional software developers have joined our LIS team. Please join me in welcoming them. I...
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This Week in LIS - 30 October 2015
Headline of the Week: On Writing "Her Lost Year": Behind the Scenes at Preus LibraryToday I welcome a “Headline” by Tabita Green, Director of Web Content. She’s recently had a book published calledHer...
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This Week in LIS - 6 November 2015
Headline of the Week: The Glass Cage: Automation and UsSpecial thanks to recent guest “Headliners.” Your excellent contributions provided time to finish Nicholas Carr’s latest bookThe Glass Cage:...
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